{"id":352,"date":"2022-08-02T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainforestqa.com\/engineering-hiring-process\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:07:12","slug":"engineering-hiring-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainforestqa.com\/blog\/engineering-hiring-process","title":{"rendered":"The engineering hiring process at Rainforest QA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of Rainforest\u2019s Engineering\u2019s team core tenets is continuous improvement. So before we started hiring again, we sat down and discussed how we wanted to change our hiring process. We decided on a few changes, but the main one was we wanted to be more transparent about how engineering at Rainforest works. That\u2019s why we\u2019re publicly publish our hiring process here for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we wanted to make it clear how we work here at Rainforest so we can attract more of the right kind of candidates. Second, we wanted to disclose the specifics of our hiring process so you can decide whether you want to go through it before applying. After all, there\u2019s no point in applying for a position if you don\u2019t want to undergo the application process \u2014 it\u2019s not a good use of your time or ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years we\u2019ve spent a lot of time reading about hiring processes and thinking about our own process. We\u2019re aware there are things in our process that might be disagreeable for some candidates and might lead to some bias in our selection process. For example, you might argue that some people aren\u2019t good at live coding or talking in front of strangers, or that our process isn\u2019t representative of \u201creal\u201d work. This is probably true, but we need some way of assessing strangers on whether they will thrive at Rainforest, and this is how we\u2019ve decided to do it \u2014 at least until we learn from the current version of the process and identify how we can improve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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